Dr Kevin Linch

Associate Professor of Modern History

Summary: War, society, and culture in Britain 1688-1840; Britain’s armed forces; conflicts in the long eighteenth century, especially the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Location: Michael Sadler building, 3.14

Teaching Commitments: HIST1210 The Modern World
FOAR2000 Research Placement
HIST3685 Georgians at War
HIST5020M Making History: Archive Placement
HIST5540M Defending the Nation

Overview

Research interests

My research explores the complex relationship Britain had with its army and other military forces during the 18th and early 19th centuries. I look at both the grand scale - considering such issues as national identity, the growth of the state, and the relationship between Britain's central and local administration - and at the level of the individual examining how the war affected the way they viewed themselves, each other, and the communities they lived in.